2023 NHL Draft Rankings and Vegas Cup Champs - June 14th, 2023
Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast
Winged Wheel Podcast
5 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
The NHL season is over, the Vegas Golden Knights have won the Stanley Cup, and it's time to turn the 2023 NHL Entry Draft coverage up to 11.
Tune in as we start with our respective top 20 rankings for the 2023 NHL Draft, including notes on which players are prototypical "Steve Yzerman" or Detroit Red Wings picks. Who will follow in the footsteps of Larkin, Seider, & Raymond in Hockeytown (4:55)? See our full rankings below.
Next, our analysis of the Vegas Golden Knights taking down the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final, including Marchessault over Eichel for the Conn Smythe, Mark Stone, Aidan Hill, and other Vegas performances, what the rest of the league can or should learn, how much the expansion draft helped, & more (50:05).
Also, the Detroit Red Wings named Dan Watson as head coach of the Grand Rapids Griffins after several strong years with the Toledo Walleye in the ECHL. How will this impact Sebastian Cossa, Marco Kasper, or other Red Wings prospects (1:04:00)?
Finally, news as the Ottawa Senators were finally sold to Michael Andlauer (1:06:40) & more before we take your question during our Overtime segment (1:12:25) - enjoy!
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Max's Dan Watson article: https://theathletic.com/4609987/2023/06/14/dan-watson-ahl-grand-rapids-griffins-coach/
Brad's Rankings:
1) Connor Bedard
2) Matvei Michkov
3) Adam Fantilli
4) Leo Carlsson
5) Will Smith
6) Ryan Leonard
7) Dalibor Dvorsky
8) Oliver Moore
9) Zach Benson
10) Gabe Perreault
11) Axel Sandin Pellikka
12) Matthew Wood
13) David Reinbacher
14) Brayden Yager
15) Nate Danielson
16) Tom Willander
17) Colby Barlow
18) Calum Ritchie
19) Dmitri Simashev
20) Samuel Honzek
Ryan's Rankings:
1) Connor Bedard
2) Matvei Michkov
3) Adam Fantilli
4) Leo Carlsson
5) Will Smith
6) Dalibor Dvorsky
7) Ryan Leonard
8) Zach Benson
9) Oliver Moore
10) Gabe Perreault
11) Axel Sandin Pellikka
12) David Reinbacher
13) Nate Danielson
14) Colby Barlow
15) Brayden Yager
16) Tom Willander
17) Samuel Honzek
18) Matthew Wood
19) Calum Ritchie
20) Dmitri Simashev
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the winged wheel podcast. Here to talk all things hockey are your hosts Brad |
| 0:10.8 | Crisco, Ryan Hanna, and Evan Lopsinger. |
| 0:13.4 | If you on the cup, would you put your kid in it and or would you eat or drink out of it? |
| 0:23.6 | Obviously you have to drink out of it in the dressing room like that's you're not |
| 0:27.3 | grinding for 16 wins in the hardest tournament in sports and not drinking out of the cup but you know |
| 0:35.0 | knowing what has gone into that cup, are you putting your children and or food in that? Yes. Absolutely, right? |
| 0:39.7 | A hundred percent. At the same time, probably. I understand exactly how gross it is. That's it. Yeah, 100%. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm having beer, I'm having poutine, sticking my kid in that cup. No particular order, I don't really care. You can do two at once if you want. |
| 0:55.0 | No, that's kind of crazy now. |
| 0:57.0 | Now I'm more curious, are you putting your kid in the poutine or in the beer? |
| 1:01.0 | Or are you putting the poutine in the beer? |
| 1:03.4 | See? |
| 1:04.4 | No, no, Brad, that's not, you know... |
| 1:06.7 | The fact that's not the least crazy of the... |
| 1:08.7 | Ryan. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, well you know how I am about poutine, I'm very particular. |
| 1:11.9 | That's fair. |
| 1:12.9 | Well, the NHL season is over. |
| 1:15.4 | The Vegas Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup. |
| 1:17.2 | I jinxed everything a few episodes ago |
| 1:20.0 | before the Stanley Cup final started by saying, well, at least the way Florida's playing, |
| 1:24.8 | this is poised to be a really good series. |
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